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" I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. "

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" I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. "

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" I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. "

" Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. "

" Writing has to support itself. "

" The writer is all alone. "

" If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. "

" Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. "

" In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. "

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" Nothing was made in Trinidad. "

" A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. "

" When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day. "

" One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough? "

" I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time. "

" In England people are very proud of being very stupid. "

" I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. "

" If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. "

" Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe. "

" In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. "

" Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. "

" The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. "

" The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. "

" I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. "

" I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. "

" If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. "

" I'm very content. "